A pink and brown pet pig snatched from a Cleveland family’s home last week has been found dead, the grief-stricken family said.

The 1-year-old miniature pig, named Spam, was taken from the home of Valerie Couch and Paul Etzler on Sept. 12 during a break-in, Fox 8 reported.

“I realized that I didn’t hear the pig oinking and he does this really loud grunt, and I didn’t hear anything and then I realized his carrier was gone, so they must have put him in the carrier and took him out,” Etzler told Fox 8 after the break-in.

Electronics and jewelry were also taken, but the family was most hurt by Spam’s disappearance — they asked police for help but they didn’t track him down until Thursday, almost 10 days later.

Etzler told Fox 8 police received an anonymous tip that Spam was in East Cleveland. Cops discovered him dead in his carrier in the back yard of a home in the area.

“It’s just heartbreaking to think about what he went through in the past week-and-a-half. I can’t imagine in a million years. We feel helpless that we couldn’t prevent it,” Couch said.

“Maybe to them it was just an animal, I don’t know. I’ll never understand the reasoning behind it. Why they bothered to take him if they weren’t going to do anything with him.”